3D week 5

Class presentations
Today we had some presentations by some of our class mates about their design work/ ideas that they will be producing. Jarrod was the first to go up and talk about his custom portfolio design, where he would be making his own portfolio ( the container or folder for his work) out of wood he says, with his own custom drawings either painted onto the wood or etched right into it. For Jessica's designs she was thinking of doing a 3 picture montage of the earth going through the beginning to the middle and then to the end stage. Amelia's design was rather interesting, she is going to make/ design her own lamps/ lanterns.
Design challenges
Jarrod will be challenging his design by using a variety of materials for the outer layer of his portfolio.
Jessica will be heading down to the darwin dump to see if she can pick up materials to make her montages more 3d with things she can find there.
Amelia will be experimenting with different shapes of designs and also what materials to use to make the lanterns out of


PRACTICAL – Design challenge / reflect & refine
30 mins – Choose your most recent 3D design concept from all your current works

My 3D &2D graffiti design
• In your Visual Diary make a list of 2 assumptions about your design

1. using double side tape to mount and hold up the spray can
2. materials to mount on, such as cardboard or foam core

• Challenge both of these assumptions

1. the double side tape will fairly hold the spray can as it may not be to heavy, but then again it might not be strong enough and it will just fall off and rip apart of the design to :S
2. both materials seem strong and sturdy, so the only issue is the thickness of each, cardboard is rather thin and wouldn't look to great mounted onto the wall, whilst as foam core has some thickness to it and it isn't to thin or to thick but looks rather okay.

• Suggest 2 refinements to solve these challenges

1. to experiment with different types of double sided tape, maybe ones with a different thickness/ strength of the tape, to see which 1 is stronger and more durable
2. try mounting a sample on to each material to see how the image looks mounted to the board and then try sticking them to the wall to see how they hold/ look on there 

3D week 4

Practical work

Our 3D concept:
mine was the poster that has more to show.. by that i mean i will be having a regular poster but, the 3d part of it will have an object form it sticking out, as if you can just reach into the poster and grab it.
an example i could do is that have a soda ad/poster with the image on it being a person handing out a soda can, and the 3d part will be half of the can sticking out of the poster, which i will have to scale and size a perfect fit into the picture.

2 experiments:

1. do a fantasy type poster
2. do a ad for an everyday object like a mobile or a soft drink ( for work purposes) 

P's & C's ( pros and cons) 

Fantasy poster/ advertisement  poster, the pros and cons are the same for both, but the only difference is wether or not i want to do it for a personal purpose for the exhibition or for a work/ professional purpose, that will be shown for a career option in the exhibition. 

pro's:

• will be quite artistic so will show my creative ideas/ how i think of things
• an original idea, or so i hope

con's: 

• will be a bit hard to get the 3d part of the poster to match/ stuck in the right place

Choosing:

hmmm i would have to go with a advertisement approach to this one, because it will be more beneficial if i were to get offered a job or career out of it, and in todays world a great design can be very powerful to companies/ industries 

GROUP EXERCISE
• THIS WEEK – Experimentation: Exploring & Challenging

o Each group member choose the best of their designs from last week’s practical

Sarah: TV box pyramid, making TV's out of cardboard or a similar material and aligning them in a pyramid formation.
Stevie: life modules, creating 3D models of animals and nature.
Jess: poster involving 4 elements, 3D elements within a 2D design

image provided by google images

Design Exploration:

Stevie: gathering ideas and inspiration from nature to incorporate them into her models.
Jess: getting different ideas and aspects from other designers.
Sarah: searching to see if it has been done yet or not, and how to improve on the idea

Design Challenges:

Stevie: will be trying a mixture of different materials and methods to combined them all.
Jess: testing out different design materials
Sarah: different materials to build the TV's and different substances to try bind them all together

images found @: http://67pics.com/pictures-cardboard-boxes.html 

2D week 5

Group exercise

1. Relatives - A doctor in London had a brother in Manchester, who was a lawyer - but
the lawyer in Manchester did not have a brother in London who was a doctor. Why?
- the "brother" in Manchester is of the African American society
A - the doctor in London is actually a sister

Q2. Bottled Money - If you put a small coin piece in an empty bottle and replaced the
cork, how would you get the coin out of the bottle without taking out the cork or breaking
the bottle?
- there could be 2 bottles
- there could be a hole in the bottom of the bottle
A - push the cork into the bottle

Q3. The Restaurant Meal - Three women each have two daughters, and they all go into a
restaurant for a meal. There are only seven vacant seats in the restaurant, but each has
a seat for herself. How do they manage it?
- the kids shared the seats
A - 1 f the ladies was the grandma and the other 2 were daughters, which both had 2 kids. total 7 people

Mike :
- was a taxi driver
- bought fire arms and thought about going into the new route
- he hired a jet pack

also discussed/ shared my information about my 2d designed concept with the class, so i don't have any of the discussion written down =(

but my 2d design was to do a fantasy/ magical collage of a few of my uni friends, by giving them magical powers and abilities which will look rather quite amazing, if i do the effect techniques correct.

  

The  2 images above were searched and found on google images

PRACTICAL – Design challenge / reflect & refine

40 mins – Choose your most recent 2D design concept from all your current works

My 2D design will be my label tags

• In your Visual Diary make a list of 2 assumptions about your design

1. different sizes for the tags
2. different styles

• Challenge both of these assumptions

1. making a medium or big sized tag would be more easier to see, but to big and it would be a nuisance and take up a lot of room 
2. experimenting with more different styles would show more of my design appeals and the styles i like

• Suggest 2 refinements to solve these challenges 

1. making a medium/ average sized tag would be more ideal as it can easily be seen yet not take up majority of the room on the page 
2. experimenting with more styles would increase my range of skills and techniques that i know and help me further understand more ways of design

2D week 4

Practical work

2 test experiments with the pros/ cons of each

ex.1 using actual sparklers/ fire to create the glow/ magical effect
pros

• would look rather nice
• seems like a fun thing to do
• keeps the group active in the process 
• would have a authentic feel/ look to it

cons

• a bit dangerous
• would take a large amount of time to get things perfect/ exact 
• will be using photoshop/ illustrator anyway, so could do it in there instead
• would be costly to play around with the materials
• needs quite a fair bit of planning 

ex.2 doing it all digitally to begin with 

pros

• easier to work with
• better looking effects
• cheaper
• more creativity options 
• better edits

cons

• would take a considerable amount of time
• could get saw eyes
• chances are comp crashes out and loose progress 

Choosing & refusing 

Option 2 seems more do-able and easier. with option 1 using the real fire and sparklers, will give a more authentic look but could be a bit tricky of injury or accidents. so in conclusion option 2 seems best, because it is less ricky of any harmful nature to anyone and the environment... and also gives a chance to refine my skills on photoshop/ illustrator as i am a bit out of touch. 

2D week 3

Group Work

For this i got into my group consisting of Teddy, Stevie, Sarah and Jessica. the task was to brain storm a design for 2 random chosen words and come up with different variations of them and what they could be.
The 2 random words we chose were Bread and Kite

and here is what we came up with

 

combing bread and kite was no easy task, practically and imaginatively. a bread kite was the one idea we could come up with that would actually work, not exactly a bread kite but a bread shaped kite. normally kites are diamond shaped, some custom ones have been made around the world, like in china there are dragon shaped kites.

PRACTICAL – Design Options

40 mins – Draft a range of 3 excellent design concepts for your exhibition portfolio

• Use any tools you wish

• Put the results and a paragraph of description in your Visual Diary

• Invent 2 different options for each of the 3 designs

• Describe how each of these options differ in

o Shape

o Media

o Style

OR any 3 criteria of your own choosing – list these criteria clearly

1. My fantasy/ graffiti design featuring Sarah Modoh as my model for the image. it will be a 2D & 3D design, consisting of a digital edit of an image, which will be photographed. after the digital enhancements have been done to the image, i will incorporate the 3D aspect to it, which will be a spray can to help show case its graffiti medium.
2. An advertisement/ poster about myself as a designer. The design will be done all digitally, in photoshop and illustrator. Might incorporate a design similar to the concept of the japanese flag, which draws your eyes attention to the centre of the image. 
3. A hand drawn image that will be refined digitally. the media will be hand drawn at first, like a few sketches and roughs, then scanned and refined in illustrator. the image will represent the future and the past, or something like that, the image could be a sword, gun, guitar or something rather iconic.

3D week 3

For our group exercise i got into a group with Teddy, Stevie, Sarah and Jess. the task at hand was to brainstorm and come up with a eco-friendly transport vehicle that was a 1 seater personal car.

the car we came up with is a electric battery start up car that runs on Co2 as the driver progress's on the road. it will use the electric battery for start up and get the car going, then there will be a button next to the steering will that changes the engine to Co2 which will then use the surrounding Co2 in the air/ atmosphere to power the car.

The name we have given the car is the E-Beetle.

Prac Work

i have come up with 3 different models of the E-Beetles

that have different design, size and functions.

1: The E-Betel
 Is the original car with a slightly more appealing front bumper and a more powerful engine than most modern hybrid cars. the body of the car will be made of carbon fiber, which is a tough yet very light metal, which is very important to the series of car because it isn't as heavy as normal cars which means it uses less power/ fuel to get it started and functioning. the inside will all be made of recycled materials to give the car a even greener feel when driving and when just sitting

2: The E-Lady
this car is designed with a more feminine touch, than the original E-Betel. With a gentler quieter engine that also converts the Co2 form the air into a nice smelling fragrance and also it has the shape of a cute lady bug, which the body will also be made of carbon fiber and the seating and insides of the car will consist of recycled materials to make the seats, steering wheel and air bags.

3: The E-Bea ( bee)
This is the ferrari or lamboghini of the E-Beetle series, it comes with a turbo super charged engine with a custom blow off valve, added with an additional 255 horse power to give it the extra kick, and the design of this beastly bug is the shape of the bee, where the blow off valve is located in the bud/ stinger area of the bee. The build of this car will be the same in materials such as carbon fiber body, recycled materials for the insides but also will feature leather like substances ti give the vehicles a very sporty and high class feel and look.

 

image provided by google images/ ferrari

3D week 2

Our practical work was to come up with 3 different designs for a CDU shoulder bag.
Different colour/ background of the bag:
could be a black or white back, made out of either material or vinyl

The different types of shoulder bags could be either 1 of the 2

both images of the bags provided by google images.

i would prefer the first option for the bag style, but that is just my opinion not the shoppers :)

a few designs i have come up with for a rough draft t add onto the shoulder bags

 

The design on the bottom left using a repetition of the triangle shape to give off a 3D-ish effect. using little cut out bits to fill in the empty spaces in each letter. The style has a rather abstract over view of the logo.

The design in the middle has just a randomly drawn up shape, but if you look at it carefully it looks like a flower sprouting out of the shell/ seed. The text is in like a bubble-ish text. the styling of this design was randomness,  using random shapes and type of text to make them stand out.

The final design on the right is a simple 1 using a dot like font for each letter, like a infected mushroom sort of thing. the style of it is quite popular in today's society so some would like it.

each design ha a different aspect about them. each covering shape, media and style.

the bottom left design addresses media. using a repetition of a shape to create a vortex, something rather retro . the text is using a shape based font with little bits to fill in the spaces.

the design in the middle covers shape. the shape of the image is randomly drawn, but began as a circle, which lead to bloom or sprouting features, to give it a flower like look. the text is represented in a bubble font.

the media of all 3 designs can be all digitally done after being hand drawn, scanned and refined. the 3rd design on the right can be physically done with buttons or metal tacks like on a pair of jeans or a jacket. 

2D week 2

 in 2D class we evaluated our information on accessing sources of information and media ( in last weeks homework) talked it over with the class to see if they thought it was relevant or not and collaborated the information into a single file.

some of the high relavent sites were;
http://www.graphicdesignblog.org/
http://psd.tutsplus.com/

they both are really helpful in coming up with and finding the techniques and sources to create our own designs.

Our practical work for this week was to come up with 3 different designs for our journals, to help us mark the pages with information like the date, our name, student number, topic and week.

 

The shape for all 3 design are based round a star shape, with different outlines and fillings. the first star, on the right is my favorite because it is simple and the stroke of it looks a bit like Japanese calligraphy. the media of the star on the left and the middle one can be done all digitally while the 1 on the right can be done digitally or hand drawn, because calligraphy was originally hand drawn by brushes. The star in the middle has a outline with a polka dot filling for the centre, again all done digitally. the star on the left side has a rather fancy/ retro outline wit ha gradient fill.

3D week 1

Just like in the 2D class in the first half, we went over some of the technical information bout who to see and contact.

for our research bit, we had to search up places and sources of 3D design. the site i would go on is psdtuts.com, because this site contains 2D &3D content :)

for our group work we had to search up some designers who have created some art works wit ha 3D blend to them.

My favorite designer/ artist would have to be Julian Beever

because his work is really quite amazing and leaves you stunned in the thought of how he managed to produce such an image

here is a website containing a bunch of his works: http://www.etntalk.com/sidewalk/

here is one of my favorite art work he has done

and this is a view of the picture form a different angle  ( shows a bit of how he drew it)

2D week 1

Its the first week into semester 2

and we just went over some helpful information about the procedures for most situations
if any computer problems, go to see Damien Cooper in the IT office, also to see him if we need to rent out any equipment.
we need to buy 2 visual diaries, 1 for 2d & 3d, while the other is for wednesdays origination/ exhibition classes.

our first brainstorm task was to think of places that give inspiration for 2D design
some of the things i came up with were;

• Other people
• Books/ magazine
• Tv
• The internet
• Nature
• Architecture

 

image provided by google images 

The group work we had was to search up sources of information related to 2D design, like a tutorial website or magazine.

some of the sites i frequently used to search for new design ideas, concepts and tutorials are; 

http://psd.tutsplus.com/

http://www.good-tutorials.com/

http://www.ndesign-studio.com/tutorials

http://www.deviantart.com/

and this is a architectural site i go to for some house design ideas 

http://www.architecturaldesigns.com/Home.aspx

Here is a awesome picture that someone has designed on the website psdtuts.com ( recommended site!)